Scramble for Africa’s natural resources ushers in militarisation of China’s foreign policy
China’s expanded African engagements follow its global ambitions. When FOCAC was launched in 2000, China had no peacekeepers in Africa and lagged far behind the United States and Europe in the training of African students, civilian and military professionals. Chinese security assistance was non-existent, and China was absent in African security debates.
New report says Covid didn’t cause surge in excess deaths, pandemic response did
Hospitals and medical providers imposed aggressive and experimental medical interventions on some people, including the systematic use of ventilators, experimental treatment protocols and palliative care for those who were severely ill. Others were denied access to medications like ivermectin or antibiotics.
Findings: Merck pharmaceutical’s popular asthma drug causes serious mental health issues in children and adults
The FDA also could review all available information to determine whether the risk outweighs the therapeutic benefit in kids and, if not, issue a contraindication warning that the drug shouldn’t be used in children under 18.
Iraq, deemed economic lung of Iran, targets high fuel oil exports this year via smuggling
In January 2023, a few months after Sudani took over, the price was lowered to $100-$150 a ton, far below the market price for exports, estimated at anywhere between $300 and $500. The lower the price of the subsidised fuel, the higher the profit margin when exporting it on the international market.
Iran and its proxies reel under US sanctions as oil smuggling network rakes in $1 billion
Iran views its neighbour and ally Iraq as an economic lung and wields considerable military, political and economic influence there through the powerful Shi’ite militias and political parties it backs. It also sources hard currency from Iraq through exports and avoids US sanctions via its banking system, Iraqi and US officials say.
French government on verge of collapse asr left, far-right no-confidence motions
The parties announced their no-confidence motions after Barnier said earlier on Monday that he would try to ram a social security bill through parliament without a vote as a last-minute concession proved insufficient to win RN’s support for the legislation.
With command and obey approach to water management, Ugandan president seeks to be the deific centre of life
In any case integrated natural resources management cannot be achieved if there are no professionally produced integrators in charge. Such actors can be produced at our institutions of higher learning if integrating sciences – interdisciplinarity, crossdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and extradisciplinarity – are institutionalised at our university campuses. Only Mbarara University of Science has accommodated interdisciplinary science.
British R&Bs icon Elton John loses eyesight, struggles to see his new stage musical
John wrote the score for ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ a stage musical based on the 2006 movie about a young journalist navigating the glamour and egos of a glossy fashion magazine.
Trump’s low oil price promise spells a risk and a boon for emerging markets
Following the oil price crashes of recent years, Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf nations, such as the United Arab Emirates, has sought to diversify its economy and nurture local debt markets.
UN Convention to Combat Desertification requires $2.6 trillion to reverse land degradation
A large chunk of the around $1 billion a day that is required will need to come from the private sector, said Thiaw, who is Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
